Crimes are committed in any social system. Under socialism, there were also plenty of them, including in the calmest decade of our country’s life – the seventies of the twentieth century. This is the Rostov maniac Chikatilo, and the gang of “Fantomas”, and the plane hijackers father and son Brazinskas, and the bank robbers Galachyans, and the bloody brothers Samoilenko, and the murderer Sietnieks, who killed his entire family. But compared to today’s times, these were isolated cases. That is why it is important to know about the details of the crimes of those years in order to see the beginnings of modern organized crime, which has now penetrated all layers of our society...